Google Mobile App 0.3.142 arrived in Apple’s iPhone App store that week. Trouble is, the application’s lauded voice recognition feature CAN’T UNDERSTAND BRITISH ACCENTS. The UK’s Daily Telegraph newspaper reported that when most Brits say “iPhone,” the app understands “Einstein” or “kitchen sink.”Or…

Ziff Davis announced today that it will STOP PUBLISHING THE PRINT VERSION OF PC MAGAZINE. The magazine, which was launched in 1982, will now be published online only. The January 2009 issue will be the last.Original post by Mike

Prison officials FOUND FOUR CELL PHONES ON DEATH ROW by the past week at Texas prisons. The discovery of these phones came in the week since the end of a prison-wide lock-down imposed after an inmate was using a cell phone to manufacture threatening calls to a Texas state senator who is chairman of …

Microblogging on Twitter is great. But sometimes you’re just too busy to sit down and type that 140-character tweet. perhaps you’re climbing a volcano, sprinting through the airport or running a marathon and just can’t stop to type. HERE’S HOW TO POST ON TWITTER USING ONLY A PHONE CALL.Original post…

Sprint has launched a marketing site to promote their “Now Network” nomenclature that shows you absurdly huge quantities of real-time documents — some of it useful, most of it not. It’s called the NOW page. While you’re looking at all these widgets, a pseudo-futuristic voice rattles off irrelevant …

3D, virtual space “worlds” enable you to take on otherworldly forms, fly through futuristic cities and battle evil wizards. But one new offering lets you sit in a meeting room and listen to PowerPoint presentations. Actually, it’s COOLER THAN IT SOUNDS.Original post by Mike

Wow. How’d they do it? Smartcard company Sagem Orga and BlueSky Positioning say they’ve collaborated to put GPS capability into a conventional TINY CELL PHONE SIM CARD.Original post by Mike